Process and catalyst for the conversion of CO/H.sub.2 O mixtures

US5082643A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Ulrich Schubert · Jena, DE
• Klaus Rose · Mundelsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 1988
• Grant date: Jan 21, 1992
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The conversion of CO/H.sub.2 O mixtures, in particular water gas, is carr out in the presence of solid, polymer rhodium complex catalysts which are insoluble in aqueous and organic solvents and are obtainable by polycondensation of one or more rhodium complexes having at least one ligand which contains at least one group capable of coordinating to rhodium and at least one group forming an inorganic network in the polycondensation, either with itself or with one or more inorganic network-forming agents capable of undergoing polycondensation. Novel rhodium complexes of this type are also described.